No deal at Boeing: Boeing Machinists voted Wednesday to reject the corporate’s newest contract provide, persevering with their strike that started on September 13. In accordance with the Seattle Instances, some union members stated the deal did not ship excessive sufficient wage will increase; others are holding out for the return of their pensions. (The corporate claims pensions are a nonstarter.) Machinists rejected the proposal with 64 % voting no. The deal would have elevated normal wages 35 % over 4 years, raised Boeing’s 401(ok) contribution, and assured 4 % annual bonuses.
In fact, the strike is not Boeing’s solely drawback: The corporate reported this week that it misplaced greater than $6 billion final quarter. New CEO Kelly Ortberg says firm executives ought to spend extra time on the manufacturing facility flooring to “forestall the festering of points and work higher collectively to establish, repair, and perceive root trigger,” KING 5 studies.
BOEING CONTRACT: @IAM751 and W24 members have voted by 64% to reject Boeing’s contract proposal.
After 10 years of sacrifice, we nonetheless have floor to make up. We hope to renew negotiations promptly.
Your entire IAM stands with our Boeing membership. https://t.co/sigbEntZ9K
— Machinists Union (@MachinistsUnion) October 24, 2024
For the West Seattle heads: The Sound Transit board might vote as we speak on the route and station areas for gentle rail to West Seattle. The reply we cannot get? How the company plans to cowl the rising price of that line, pegged final month at round $7 billion.
Closing arguments in Kroger-Albertsons merger trial: In case you forgot about this one, Kroger and Albertsons, two firms that management greater than half of the grocery shops within the state, need to merge. The Federal Commerce Fee and Lawyer Normal Bob Ferguson aren’t having it. They argue the merger would imply much less competitors and better costs. The 2 sides made their closing arguments this week, so the choice now rests within the palms of a choose. That stated, court-watchers anticipate a federal ruling in December that might doubtlessly supersede any state rulings.
Seattle’s tech trade continues to chop jobs: In pursuit of the almighty “right-sizing/reorganizing,” Seattle’s tech trade dropped 6,100 jobs this 12 months, a 4 % decline, the Puget Sound Enterprise Journal studies.
Do you know our boot-licking metropolis council is definitely held hostage by a “very militant wing of the labor motion?” So says the Seattle Instances Editorial Board and the proprietor of Moshi Moshi Sushi, who’re nonetheless whining that the council failed to guard the Metropolis’s two-tiered minimal wage that permits “small” companies (who make use of fewer than 500 staff) to pay lower than bigger companies. The Ed Board is huge mad that Council Member Pleasure Hollingsworth folded instantly beneath a wave of stress and that Mayor Bruce Harrell “did not budge” to assist restaurant homeowners pay staff much less. Their conclusion: “The loudest voices” nonetheless run the present at Metropolis Corridor. We want.
Extra media critique: KUOW printed a glowing abstract of the work Republican gubernatorial candidate Dave Reichert did to catch the Inexperienced River Killer, a case that elevated his political profession. Within the piece, they closely indicate that he deserves credit score for the arrest of Gary Ridgway. The story’s picture encompasses a collage with two photographs of Reichert subsequent to Ridgway’s mug shot. The next traces, emphasis mine, counsel that he was integral to the case: “It wasn’t till science caught up, when Reichert was sheriff, that the state crime lab was in a position to incriminate Ridgway….However these policing instruments, painstaking and exhausting, teed up the scientific discovery.”
Whereas Reichert did reopen the case when he turned sheriff, his supervisor instructed the Seattle PI that the famous homophobe and transphobe “was extra of an obstacle to the investigation,” as The Stranger reminded readers again in 2010. In accordance with his supervisor, Reichert’s police work was shoddy, and his obsession with a special suspect took up invaluable time and assets, and it virtually bungled the case:
Not solely did Reichert not catch Ridgeway—he tried to speak different detectives out of acquiring the warrant that bought them the saliva swabs that finally convicted him. pic.twitter.com/C0FCPpG1mB
— DivestSPD (@DivestSPD) October 23, 2024
KUOW’s reporting mentions Reichert’s obsession with the improper man, however it successfully dismisses a six-part Seattle Instances sequence concerning the investigation’s dangerous police work by handing Reichert the microphone in order that he might mainly say, YOU DON’T KNOW, YOU WEREN’T THERE. Good work!
One other girl accuses Trump of groping: A former mannequin named Stacey Williams says convicted intercourse offender Jeffery Epstein walked her into Trump Tower in 1993 to fulfill Trump, who promptly “pulled her towards him and began groping her,” the Guardian studies. Williams stated the 2 males shared a smile after the incident. Although she’d shared elements the story earlier than, she delivered the main points on a name with Survivors for Kamala, which helps the Harris marketing campaign.
Harris admits the apparent: At a CNN city corridor, somebody requested Vice President Kamala Harris if Donald Trump match the mould of a fascist, and she or he agreed. “A rising variety of Trump’s former high aides” be part of her on this evaluation, together with former Chief of Employees John Kelly, in response to the Washington Put up. She went on to name him “more and more unhinged and unstable,” and she or he warned (now I am paraphrasing) that the so-called ‘adults within the room’ is not going to stand able to smack the nuclear soccer out of his palms, making him extra “harmful” than ever.
Trump tells Hugh Hewitt this morning that he would fireplace Particular Counsel Jack Smith “inside two seconds” if he have been re-elected
— Olivia Rinaldi (@olivialarinaldi) October 24, 2024
“I would like the form of generals that Hitler had,” Trump exclaimed in 2020 throughout a non-public dialog on the White Home, in response to the Atlantic. The journal additionally factors to a passage in The Divider: Trump within the White Home, which recounts a time when Trump requested his former chief of workers, John Kelly, why he could not “be just like the German generals.” Kelly reportedly stated that “that German generals ‘tried to kill Hitler 3 times and virtually pulled it off.'” Trump replied, “No, no, no, they have been completely loyal to him.
Regardless of the apparent: Nate Silver thinks Trump will win, however he additionally thinks you should not belief that wager. He argues Trump would possibly over-perform the polls as a result of Dem losses in celebration identification and the “Bradley impact,” or, to replace the time period, the “Hillary Clinton” impact, the place numerous “undecided voters” are actually simply voters who do not need to say they do not need to vote for a girl president. However, he argues, pollsters could possibly be making any variety of errors, and marginal voters won’t present up, which might hand Harris the victory. Within the face of uncertainty, there’s just one reply: Vote. How? We bought you coated.
Terror assault in Turkey: An assault at Turkey’s state-run aerospace firm killed 5 individuals and injured 22, CNN studies. Movies confirmed an explosion and assailants carrying weapons. Though a bunch has not claimed duty, Turkey’s protection minister blamed the Kurdistan Staff’ Social gathering and the nation hit PKK targets in Iraq and Syria.
The US and Canada sanction pro-Palestine prisoner group: Samidoun can now not transfer cash round to “increase consciousness and supply assets about Palestinian political prisoners, their circumstances, their calls for, and their work for freedom for themselves, their fellow prisoners, and their homeland,” Al Jazeera studies. The nations say the group funds the Fashionable Entrance for the Liberation of Palestine, which each nations designate as a “terrorist group.”
TODAY: The US and Canada try to repress Samidoun with sanctions and terrorist designations. Earlier, impartial teams hosted a rally in solidarity with Samidoun, reaffirming the broader motion’s dedication to help greater than 13,000 Palestinian prisoners. pic.twitter.com/xDSMzQZOQN
— Hannah Krieg (@hannahkrieg) October 24, 2024
Remember concerning the jab: Folks 65 and older and people who are immunocompromised ought to get a second dose of the most recent COVID vaccine, the CDC says. (And the remainder of us ought to get one, too.)
Arizona man arrested after taking pictures at Democratic Social gathering workplace: Nobody was injured within the taking pictures at a Phoenix-area marketing campaign workplace, however police say the 60-year-old man had greater than 120 weapons, 250,000 rounds, and a grenade launcher. They imagine he was “making ready to commit an act of mass casualty,” the New York Instances studies.
